Cenk Uygur
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Jetpack Firefighters Are Now A Reality
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November 29, 2015
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3:33Now PlayingDubai is swimming in money. They have many high rise buildings and there is concern that it will be difficult to put out fires on upper floors. So they are investing in jetpacks that firefighters can use to help put out fires. Grace Baldridge (Pop Trigger), Hasan Piker (Pop Crunch) and Ana Kasparian (The Point) hosts of The Young Turks discuss.
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"Dubai's firefighters could one day use jetpacks to tackle blazes in high-rise buildings. The oil-rich emirate signed a contract this week with the Martin Aircraft Company to purchase 20 jetpacks and two training simulators for the Dubai Civil Defense service (DSD). The jetpacks are intended to be used in a "first-responder role," said Lt Col Ali Hassan Almutawa of the DSD, who said they would be particularly useful for emergencies in the city's ever-growing number of skyscrapers.
"Sometimes we have challenges or difficulties to reach the top floors of those buildings. The [jetpacks] can go into confined spaces to size-up the situation. We are going to modify them with thermal imaging cameras," Almutawa told BBC News. He added that the DSD would be experimenting with firefighters who would tow a "mule train" of uncrewed jetpacks behind them during rescues. He said: "Rescue and firefighting, we see these as the main roles at first. But there could be many other roles."
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